Is Jensen Huang’s Affair a Crisis for the A.I. Boom? It’s not yet clear what the Nvidia C.E.O.—or the Trump Administration—knew about the alleged Chinese spy he was involved with. The Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang’s affair with a Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. officials believe to be a spy could, as others have pointed out, turn out to be the costliest extramarital dalliance of all time. After the Times reported on Huang’s relationship with the woman—Alice Huang, or Huang Le, an executive at a Singapore-based tech firm called Megaspeed International—he confessed over the weekend that he had been “unfaithful.” (The Chinese government has denied that Alice Huang is an intelligence asset and called the story “a smear.”) By Tuesday afternoon, Nvidia’s stock had tumbled by more than ten per cent, and Huang’s stake in the chip company had lost more than seventeen billion dollars of its value. On the plus side for Huang, the roughly eight hundred and seventy million shares that he and ...
